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I looked at his twitter recently and he has a tweet saying not being able to help a team is one of the worst feelings and he has retweeted plenty of UNT posts as well as tweeted about UNT games. He also still has it listed in his bio that he is a DE with UNT. I think he'll be here in the spring. What will his eligibility look like if he does become eligible and joins the team next year? Does he lose a year of eligibility this year?

It's not just about being over saturated with the game itself. If you're a married man, in a commited relationship or have kids, you just can't justify allocating that much time to watching games you don't care about. Add that in with early Sunday London games (lose the church crowd or partiers) and Monday and Thursday games (again tough for those with kids who you're trying to take care of after school, homework, get ready for bed) it's just a lot of obstacles to watch a game you don't care about unless you have zero responsibilities. Like you said, if the matchup is bad, it doesn't help any.

Don't understand saying we put Alec in for a qb sneak. Goal line. Offense subs out their qb for a bigger qb that they haven't played since the second game of the season. He's not in there to throw the ball. Kind of limits of the playbook to a running play of some sort. Seems like an easy read if the opposing staff has done all of their homework. Our offensive line just isn't good enough pound it at will. We just need to get creative but I don't think qb sneak with Alec is the answer. Both QBs bring things to the table the other doesn't. You roll with Fine so you have to get creative in those situations.

What do you know about this "other teammate"?

Something we need to remember is being a head coach is also managing people. Not just your players but your staff. At the end of the day, You need a whole staff to succeed as they colectively probably do more recruiting than the 1 HC and collectively probably deal more with the Xs and Os. Considering where both programs were last year, I think Seth immediately has shown he knows how to assemble a good staff. Wilson as well. What will be interesting to see is how they replace current staff members who might end up leaving for bigger jobs elsewhere.

No our td pass that was called back. Offensive pass interference because we ran a pick. You clearly watched the game. I don't know why that was so hard for you to figure out. Like I said, i didn't see it. I'm going off of what the tv announcers said happened.

Overall we played a bad game. Yes, it doesn't help that we have up the ball a bunch but our defense got handled. Those two fumbles were terrible. I don't even understand how Fine's fumble happened. And fumbling at the goal line to end the half? And what was up with that time management too. Three timeouts with the ball at the one and a minute left and we get nothing! They didn't show a replay of the pick play. Did anybody get a good look of it? I would love to see it again...

Didn't realize that about the "healthy" red shirt. I thought they were two separate things. Seems odd that you wouldn't give a player at least an additional year of eligibility if they suffer a season ending injury like a torn ACL regardless of whether or not you've already taken a redshirt season but those are the rules I guess...

Per Conference USA rules, for conference games, visiting teams are required to complete travel the day before a game is being played unless they receive approval from C-USA prior to the day before the game is played.

Was wondering the same thing. We don't exactly have the best reputation so what do you expect opposing team's writers to say? They would get killed if they said we would win considering our recent history. Once we show consistent success, you might see this change.

True. If he's unable to play next year because of it, is he eligible for a medical redshirt? To my knowledge, you can only obtain a medical redshirt for the season the injury occurred in but I only know so little...

I desperately want Fine to succeed and believe he's done great so far for a true freshman considering the position we were in after last season. The most telling stat is the amount of interceptions. Hopefully he has a breakout game before the end of the season. Not asking for him to throw for 300+ yards but it would be nice to see him get multiple touchdown passes while completing closer to 60% of his passes in one game. I agree though, if Murray is better for the run game, keep him in as long as Wilson is playing and beyond if we still depend heavily on the run game post-Wilson era.

Really makes you wonder what kind of role Murray will have moving forward after this season as we try to move towards passing the ball more. It's not a big deal right now since our biggest threat is #26 but once we get better pass blocking O-linemen and more talented receivers (hopefully signing day won't disappoint!), I wonder if Murray will still be a starter. I've also been thinking that Fine might not be the starter next year in favor of Devlin Isadore if he can recover quickly from his injury. He'll be here in the spring so he'll have plenty of time to earn the starting job and has played JUCO so it's not like he's as far back as a true freshman from a small OK school. at 6 foot 4, it doesn't seem like Murray is as much of an obstacle although I do realize that 6 foot 9 is still huge. It's obvious that you're more football savvy than most here. What do you think about those two spots next year? If Devlin can show he can start next Fall, is it more of a risk to break in a new starting LG or a new QB? Isadore is talented and was garnering attention prior to his injury. I'm not turning my back on Fine, just wondering what his role is beyond this year with more QBs coming in considering where we stand at OL.

How many students are expected to go? It would be nice to know about many total UNT fans will be there

Their board says they're expect 25 to 30 recruits. How great will it be If those 25 to 30 recruits show up to see 2 to 3 thousand in green plus the band.

I just read about that on the UTSA fan board. Wonder what the number of tickets is...

Per a member of the UTSA fan board, we've sold out our ticket allotment for the game. Anybody know what that allotment number is?

Yeah I just don't remember that many fumbles... I remember 2 or 3 fumbles that were overturned as fumbles (knee was down, etc...) but I don't remember them fumbling the ball 7 times. I'm sure some of those are just botched pitches and not necessarily caused by the defense. The botched snap on the punting play is one... To be clear, I'm not wanting to argue the amount of fumbles, I was mostly curious as to why the amount fumbles were mentioned but not the amount of picks so I though Brett Vito had made a mistake.

Glad to hear that! I was going off of the description in the initial post that says he's being recruited by Mainord and Falani.

Gotcha! I thought about that, just didn't think to check the box score on ESPN. It just seems odd to say they turned it over seven times and fumbled seven times. Makes it seem like they lost all seven of their fumbles and that was it. I even watched the game but didn't realize they had that many total fumbles!

" The Mean Green forced seven turnovers on a cold and rainy day. The Black Knights fumbled the ball seven times." Didn't Army fumble only three times and not seven?

Per this article, he was visiting other schools while he was committed to Iowa and it rubbed the coaches off the wrong way. They expect their commits to stop looking elsewhere and he didn't so the relationship between he and their staff has weakened.

Littrell is from Muskogee. Don't know why he's not the one recruiting him.

In 20 years, we'll all tell stories about when THE University of North Texas cracked two random college football sites' top 80 #rankings. (sarcasm) Let's keep it going by crushing the birds!

Great article. I'm excited to see Fine play in a Dome against a middle of the pack pass defense. I think we'll learn a lot about Fine this game since defenses know they need to stop Wilson to win and playing in a dome, weather will not be a factor. Hopefully he gives us the performance we all believe is capable of pulling off!